FWIW readers are responding to my "pics or it didn't happen" request for palm cards -- thank you. If you have a card to send, scan or photo it and email it to me at jackleyhane@yahoo.com.
This 34th Ward card would not be at all newsworthy---strictly following the Party line as it does---but for the request for a "no" vote for John J. Mahoney's retention bid.
Mahoney is officially endorsed for retention by the Cook County Democratic Party, and he has been rated qualified for retention by the Chicago Bar Association and eight of the bar associations in the Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Screening, including the Chicago Council of Lawyers. But four Alliance bars turned thumbs down on Mahoney, including the Illinois State Bar Association. The Suburban Bar Coalition has also recommended against Mahoney's retention.
Wait a minute. I don't mean to quibble. But I thought that none of them are "officially" endorsed by the party because they didn't pay their tithe because of Toomin. So what's the deal?
ReplyDeleteIt's Preston Brown's first endorsements, as 34th Ward Committeeperson. 😁
ReplyDeleteAnon 10/23 at 10:37 a.m. -- Surely you do not mean that the Party's endorsement is any way contingent, do you? Quid pro quo?
ReplyDeleteRemember, the Party bylaw is framed in terms of the Party retention endorsement being automatic except in particular circumstances. Here's the pertinent language (emphasis mine), "The Executive Committee of the Cook County Democratic Party shall have the authority to recommend to the Central Committee whether to withhold endorsement from any judge(s) on the retention ballot, upon good cause shown by any member(s) of the Central Committee."